Tom Yakutis
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Mon Jan 28 08:20:34 CET 2002
The prolific and gifted Disney writer/artist Tom Yakutis passed away on
Friday, January 25 at his home in Carpentiria, California. Tom wrote numerous
stories for Disney Comics, as well as gags for the Scamp Comic Strip from
1984 - 1989.
Tom started at Disney Studios in 1956 and worked for Larry Harmon, Art Scott,
UPA, TV Spots, DePatie-Freleng, Hanna-Barbera, Filmation, Warner Bros., Marvel
and Universal, retiring in 1994. An Emmy Award winner, he was elected to
several terms on the Executive Board of the Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists
Union in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s, and served as President of the
Union from 1982 to 1983.
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